Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner Plan ‘Ghost’ TV Pilot

Nearly a quarter century after it won Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar and had a nation of romantics singing “I’ve hungered…hungered for your touch,” “Ghost” may be coming back, this time on the small screen.

Writers Akiva Goldsman (“I am Legend,” “A Beautiful Mind”) and Jeff Pinkner (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “Lost”) are teaming up to write a new television pilot based on “Ghost.”

The duo, who worked together on the cult favorite television series “Fringe,” have been hired by the studio behind the film, Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, which recently set up a television division. The “Ghost” pilot has not yet been bought by a television network and, like all pilots, still has a road before making it to air.